This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Telephone
It's Ol' Dirty
He wants to give you directions home
Said it won't be too long
The day is gone
It's 3:30
To hungry for sum love, love
Last forever
Just fly away to heaven brother
Make a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Save a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Put in a word for me
Telephone
Hmmm
Telephone
It's so dirty
He wants to give you directions home
Said it won't be too long
Said it won't be too long
Telephone
It's too early
We want to hear a long song
Transition with a real slow fade
Just fly away to heaven brother
Make a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Save a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Put in a word for me
Telephone
Oh
Transition time to go away
Time to go away
Slow fade
Slow, slow fade oh
Just fly away to heaven brother
Make a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Save a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Put in a word for me
Fly away to heaven brother
Celebrate (celebrate)
Gather on the hill
Two hearts up in the sky
Celebrate your life
Oh, say I love you
Gather on the hill
Two hearts up in the sky
Celebrate your life
Oh, say I love you
Gather on the hill
Two hearts up in the sky
Celebrate your life
Oh, say I love you
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm
It's Ol' Dirty
He wants to give you directions home
Said it won't be too long
The day is gone
It's 3:30
To hungry for sum love, love
Last forever
Just fly away to heaven brother
Make a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Save a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Put in a word for me
Telephone
Hmmm
Telephone
It's so dirty
He wants to give you directions home
Said it won't be too long
Said it won't be too long
Telephone
It's too early
We want to hear a long song
Transition with a real slow fade
Just fly away to heaven brother
Make a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Save a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Put in a word for me
Telephone
Oh
Transition time to go away
Time to go away
Slow fade
Slow, slow fade oh
Just fly away to heaven brother
Make a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Save a place for me brother
Fly away to heaven brother
Put in a word for me
Fly away to heaven brother
Celebrate (celebrate)
Gather on the hill
Two hearts up in the sky
Celebrate your life
Oh, say I love you
Gather on the hill
Two hearts up in the sky
Celebrate your life
Oh, say I love you
Gather on the hill
Two hearts up in the sky
Celebrate your life
Oh, say I love you
Mmm, mmm, mmm
Mmm, mmm, mmm
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